Mr. Timothy L. Hower
MR. TIMOTHY HOWERis President of MHA Petroleum Consultants Inc, a Denver-based petroleum consulting firm.
He has over 21 years petroleum engineering experience and has conducted technical studies on 6 continents.
His recent assignments include serving as Acting Exploitation Manager for the Offshore Australia Business Unit of Santos Ltd. in Adelaide, and in-house consultant for the Shell affiliate NAM located in the Netherlands.Previously, he was the Engineering Manager for Enron Oil and Gas Company and Senior Manager of Exploration and Production Studies with the former Intera Petroleum Division (now Schlumberger Holditch Reservoir Technologies).

He co-authored, Managing Water-Drive Gas Reservoirs, a textbook published by the Gas Research Institute, and has been directly involved in the development and instruction of MHA's technical courses for BP Amoco.

He was the Chairman of the Denver SPE section for 2001/2002 and received the SPE Henry Mattson Technical Service Award for innovative contributions in the field of engineering of gas reservoirs.He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in petroleum engineering from Penn State University.

The estimates of natural gas reserves have been prepared by Tim Hower, and staff under his supervision, of MHA Petroleum Consultants (Denver).
Mr Hower is chairman of MHA has over 25 years of Petroleum engineering evaluation experience and is a qualified person as defined under the ASX Listing Rule 5.11.
Reserves have been developed within the guidelines of the SPE.
MHA has consented to the use of this information.

MR. TIMOTHY HOWER is President of MHA Petroleum Consultants Inc, a Denver-based petroleum consulting firm.Mr. Hower was formerly Engineering Manager for Enron Oil and Gas Company and Senior Manager of Exploration and Production Studies with the former Intera Petroleum Division (now Schlumberger Holditch Reservoir Technologies).Mr. Hower has over 21 years petroleum engineering experience and has conducted technical studies in the North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa.

His recent assignments include serving as Acting Exploitation Manager for the Offshore Australia Business Unit of Santos Ltd. in Adelaide, and in-house consultant for the Shell affiliate NAM located in the Netherlands.He has co-authored Managing Water-Drive Gas Reservoirs, a textbook published by the Gas Research Institute, and has been directly involved in the development and instruction of MHA's technical courses for BP Amoco.

Mr. Hower received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in petroleum engineering from Penn State University in 1981 and 1983, respectively.He has been the Chairman of the Denver SPE section for 2001/2002 and was recently presented with the SPE Henry Mattson Technical Service Award for innovative contributions in the field of engineering of gas reservoirs.

These reserves were independently certified by Tim Hower of MHA Petroleum Consultants LLC, Denver, USA who has consented to the inclusion of the reserves information in the form and context in which it appears.